"She's biracial," they'd say, explaining why she looked different. Her mother often yanked her hair, perplexed. “She would hit me on the head with a brush, because she was so frustrated, she didn't know what to do with my hair," Troup said. She called it "a rat's n...
In 2019, 62% of law students were white, 12.7% were Hispanic, 7.8% were black, 6.3% were Asian and 4% were biracial or multiracial. American law schools, once stern strongholds of the old guard, now actively seek diversity. Admissions officers are adamant that they’re not look...
WARNING: The themes of the following story are disturbing. The language includes racial and religious slurs. CNET has edited some of the wording because of its ugly nature but preserved the intent to present a clear picture of attacks on real people. Mikey Weinstein knows about online harassment...
Maxwell:"I think that if you're going to do that, then you need to speak about what is real. You need to put everything out on the table, especially like in this situation we're talking about people of color. You need to be vulnerable. You need to be real about it. We need to...
s degree in psychology. Her lived experiences as a second-generation immigrant and an Afro-Caribbean/White biracial woman informs her research interests in creating equitable learning environments for racially and ethnically minority youth in urban settings. The last author is a White cis male ...
In my effort to make sure my biracial son was surrounded by people of all races, I had enrolled him in a nursery school in a largely African-American part of Philadelphia even though we live in a racially diverse nearby suburb. My son had simply observed that the people along our drive...
Caterpillar Summer,Gillian McDunn:There’s so much to love that I don’t know where to start! Cat and Chicken are a biracial brother-sister duo unexpectedly spending the summer with their mother’s estranged parents. Cat is desperate to learn more about her mother and her grandparents- and...
as I am so interested in ancestry. For my personal identity, the biggest part is my personality, being loud and outgoing, has always been important to me. The reason being, it is how people view me. A lot of people know me as the loud person or the person who talks a lot. That ...
Sixty years and one biracial president later,"GMA"gathered 19 black children, ranging in age from 5 to 9 years old, in Norfolk, Va. Some of our results differed vastly from those of the original experiment. For example, 88 percent of our children happily identified with the dark-skinned ...
There were numerous articles and opinion pieces about whether Harris can legitimatelyclaim to be African American; theauthenticity of her Black identityif she has an Indian mother; what it means for her to bebiracial; and other articles opining and speculating about her racial, ethnic and evenna...